Re: the ASA email list

For the most part I agree with Glenn;
1) Limiting posts per day -- although I can understand the reasoning that leads
to it -- is restricting discussion and bad.
2) If we used a web-based discussion forum, that would solve the problem of
having to delete emails we don't want to read (And I agree with Glenn on the
kinds of messages I don't want to read: messages about gays, same sex marriage,
and (mostly) politics. Most of these get deleted when they appear in my in
box.)

Having said that, there is considerable merit in a couple of suggestions from
Loren and Jack: It would be very useful to be able to discuss papers in
process, or research that individuals are considering, or is in progress. And
Jack's suggestion that someone -- perhaps the individual who starts the thread
-- should summarize it once discussion has reached a point where a summary can
be written is very good.

I submit that using a web-based discussion forum could help realize both of
these objectives, since it would tend to channelize discussions so participants
could pick the ones they wanted to take part in and it would be relatively easy
to look through a topic to summarize it (of course this can also be done with
the archive format we use)

What disadvantages of a web-based forum caused you folks to vote against it? I
was taking a holiday at the time (actually I was being a workaholic for GM. Now
I'm retired and can blab to my heart's content)

Bill Hamilton
William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31

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Received on Fri Jun 9 23:50:13 2006